Public parade vs Cross procession: government’s battle for Tomos

The year of 2018 was different from the previous ones. The authorities of Ukraine are now making serious efforts to legalize the UOC KP and the UAOC under the guise of the Local Church. The official festivities of the Baptism of Rus were attended by the delegation of Constantinople, therefore the potent administrative resource was used by the power to reduce the number of believers in the Cross procession of the UOC on July 27 as much as possible, and to increase simultaneously the number of people at the event of the UOC KP on July 28th.

We will show if the authorities managed to carry out what had been conceived by them, how many people participated in the processions of the UOC and the UOC KP, and how all this was highlighted in the Ukrainian media.

Will Constantinople Fall—Again?

The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s once-justified primacy has become a self-serving phantom, selectively wielding ancient canons to justify schism and ecumenism while its shrunken church survives only on Western political life-support.

The Kremlin's Archons

After accusing a pan-Orthodox delegation of being “lobbyists for Putin,” it turns out two of the Archons’ own have actually lobbied on behalf of Russian interests.

A Miscarriage of Justice: How the Phanar Betrayed Met. Tychikos

The following article by Fr. Anastasios Gotsopoulos was first published by the UOJ's Greek bureau. It has been edited for an American audience.

The New McCarthyism

Today, a delegation of Orthodox clergy will meet with the White House to plead on behalf of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Yet mainstream media outlets like The Hill and politicians like Rep. Joe Wilson are dismissing the effort as a Kremlin psyop. This is offensive to the UOC, and to Orthodox Christians here in the United States.

Zelensky-Style Sanctions: The 'Mindich Case' vs. the 'UOJ Case'

Ten years of sanctions for journalists who criticize the authorities, and three years for corrupt officials who steal millions. A story about whom and how people are punished in modern Ukraine.

Will the Phanar Abandon the OCU?

The Orthodox Times ' plea for a “temporary Exarchate” in Ukraine under Constantinople admits the 2019 Tomos birthed division, not unity. Amid OCU defections, state seizures, and Phanar whispers of a puppet church, the proposal is a white flag for a failed intervention. Of course, it also vindicates Met. Onuphry’s steadfast flock.